# 122. N. K. KRUPSKAYA — TO THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF *ISKRA*

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N. K. KRUPSKAYA — TO THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF *ISKRA*.

5/XII* [1903. Geneva]. Copy**.

On Friday (December 4th) Comrade Martov informed me that the editorial board is appointing an official assistant for me — Comrade Blumenfeld — without even asking me whether I need an assistant at all. In such an appointment, as well as in the removal from my jurisdiction of part of the editorial correspondence (that part concerning which Comrade Martov stated that "we have developed our own, admittedly small, correspondence over this time") — I cannot but see an expression of mistrust toward me, and therefore I refuse to continue managing the secretariat of the editorial board.

* In the manuscript — a slip: "5/XI" is written. — Ed.

** The manuscript of the document represents a draft letter written in ink in N. K. Krupskaya's hand and left for the archive as a copy. The date and inscription "Copy" are written in later in ink in N. K. Krupskaya's hand as well. — Ed.